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Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12277

Sweet and simple. Vote for your fave.

Sodacake · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 12:47 pm

Such an ordinary poll. Went with Iron Maiden.

corrections · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:11 pm **Posts:** 15291

Initially was going to pick Black Sabbath. You have one of their top five tracks and even though Children of the Grave is one of their weaker classic tracks. Had War Pigs been the other pairing I would have taken Sabbath likely. But man does the Victim of Changes/Beyond the Realms of Death combo make it pretty much impossible to pick anyone other than Priest. How did you select the combos?

Anyway order:

Amazing
1. Priest
2. Black Sabbath (really for the title track alone)
3. Sabbath with Dio (good picks)
4. Metallica

Great
5. Iron Maiden (although I find the Trooper a bit overrated)
6. Alice in Chains
7. System of a Down
8. Megadeth (Holy Wars is awesome but Wake Up the Dead is kind of meh)

Good
9. Motorhead
10. Rage Against the Machine
11. Pantera (a couple of their only good songs)

Mediocre
12. Soundgarden

Barf
13. Tool
14. Slayer

Gray · **Joined:** Sun Jul 10, 2011 4:49 pm **Posts:** 3824

Metallica but I actually almost went Tool. If it had been Schism and not The Grudge I would have.

George · **Joined:** Thu Oct 07, 2010 11:43 am **Posts:** 4200

mercury... the most metal of all metals.

joe c · **Joined:** Mon Oct 11, 2010 1:35 am **Posts:** 3063

Soundgarden pretty easily

Forgotten Son · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 6:02 pm

Black Sabbath closely followed by System of a Down. Some odd choices here.

pave · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 8:26 pm

System is the only band here that i really love. i used to be really big on AiC, but i'm burnt out on them. i enjoy Sabbath and Metallica every once in a while.

and i'll say it again, outside of Matt Cameron, Soundgarden is really boring to me. some of the most dull vocal melodies and guitar riffs ever written imo. Black Hole Sun may as well be a Snow Patrol song with electric guitar, that's how unexciting it is.

Sodacake · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 9:52 pm

pave wrote:

System is the only band here that i really love.

Weird. They're the only band here I really dislike.

pgm · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 11:17 pm

corrections wrote:

Initially was going to pick Black Sabbath. You have one of their top five tracks and even though Children of the Grave is one of their weaker classic tracks.

Disagree with you on Children of the Grave. It's so menacing. For a weaker classic track, look no further than Iron Man.

wantabodylikeme · **Posted:** Sat May 12, 2012 11:51 pm

sabbath for sure

Negative Creep · **Joined:** Tue Oct 12, 2010 5:21 pm **Posts:** 12277

pgm wrote:

corrections wrote:

Initially was going to pick Black Sabbath. You have one of their top five tracks and even though Children of the Grave is one of their weaker classic tracks.

Disagree with you on Children of the Grave. It's so menacing. For a weaker classic track, look no further than Iron Man.

Couldn't agree more.

corrections wrote:

How did you select the combos?

With most of them, I tried to go with songs that were classics, yet not totally huge and overplayed to death.
Hence no Paranoid for Sabbath, no One for Metallica, no Run To The Hills for Maiden, etc.

pave wrote:

and i'll say it again, outside of Matt Cameron, Soundgarden is really boring to me. some of the most dull vocal melodies and guitar riffs ever written imo. Black Hole Sun may as well be a Snow Patrol song with electric guitar, that's how unexciting it is.

I'm guessing you haven't heard much besides the "big" songs. How anyone could accuse THIS of having "dull vocal melodies and riffs" is beyond me...

Forgotten Son · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 1:28 pm

Negative Creep wrote:

I'm guessing you haven't heard much besides the "big" songs.

I'm fairly confident he has.

pave · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 1:34 pm

Negative Creep wrote:

pave wrote:

and i'll say it again, outside of Matt Cameron, Soundgarden is really boring to me. some of the most dull vocal melodies and guitar riffs ever written imo. Black Hole Sun may as well be a Snow Patrol song with electric guitar, that's how unexciting it is.

I'm guessing you haven't heard much besides the "big" songs.

i've heard everything they've ever done actually, including various sideprojects. my entire freshman year of high school was devoted to Pearl Jam, AiC, Nirvana and Soundgarden. but then i stopped listening to them, and when i finally got back around to them i was amazed by how bored i was with Soundgarden and can't listen to them anymore. just my experience.

Yousha · **Posted:** Sun May 13, 2012 7:13 pm

Only Megadeth here has both my favorite songs by them, and Wake up Dead is quite possibly my favorite metal song. almost all of them are dangerously close to one another, beside Maiden, Pantera and Metallica. I really love all the others.

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